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Science project idea on how to plan your diet.
Planning our Diet- Science Project Idea
What considerations should govern the planning of our diet?It is evident that our diet must have the proper fuel value, and contain the proper amount of protein.Since there is usually too much protein in an unrestricted diet, large amounts of lean meats and other foods containing a high percentage of protein should be avoided.It would be well to calculate the calorie value of your food for a day.If more than 15 per cent of the calories are from protein, then your diet is too rich in that.An excess of fat or carbohydrate in the diet is apt to cause an increase of weight due to the storing up of excess fuel in the form of fat.  A diet which contains the proper amount of protein, carbohydrate, and fat may, however, be a very unsatisfactory one.There must be included in it foods which will supply the minerals needed by the body, and those minute substances called vitamin, without which normal growth and repair does not occur.Vegetables, whole grain bread and cereals, fruits, and milk are especially valuable for their minerals.Milk and leafy vegetables such as lettuce and spinach are indispensable in the diet.Fruits and coarse elements in the food such as the bran or outer coat of wheat exert a beneficial effect upon the digestive organs.  A good diet, therefore, will be one which supplies the proper amount of the three nutrients, and includes milk, leafy vegetables, some fruit and coarse food such as whole wheat bread, and is so varied as not to become monotonous.It is presumed, also, that those parts of the food which are cooked have been made both more digestible and more appetizing, and that there has been no waste of their elements.
Science Project Idea Make a proper diet for a growing child and an adult for a week.Present the amount of calories and nutrients obtained from all the foods.How do these two diets differ? Why would these diets differ?
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